Teaching Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: The objective of this lesson is to learn about how tone is used in the Foreword and Prologue, "Looking Backward: 1964 to 1991," to convey the author's message.

1) Tasks, Ideas, Challenges, and Homework

Activity 1: Have students write down what they think the author's tone is in the Foreword and Prologue, "Looking Backward: 1964 to 1991." What tone is used in the chapter?...
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